Aussie And International Celebrities React To Australia Voting Yes To Marriage Equality

After an anxious few months of voting and campaigning, David Kalisch from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) announced today at 10am AEDT that Australians who returned the same-sex marriage postal vote—which was voluntary—voted in majority of yes: 61.6 per cent.

While this hasn’t automatically made same-sex marriage legal in Australia—a private member’s bill amending the Marriage Act will be introduced, and members of Parliament will be given a ‘free vote,’ which means they can vote according to their own personal conscience—it’s still cause for celebration, because this means marriage equality is what the majority of Australians want.

But this isn’t just national news. All eyes have been on Australia, and even international celebrities—including Miley Cyrus, Ellen DeGeneres and Debbie Harry—have weighed in to congratulate us on this momentous occasion.